Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill

P. G. O'Neill (born 1924) is a British academic and writer on Japanese language and Noh drama.^[1]

P. G. O'Neill was, with Ronald P. Dore, Sir Peter Parker and John McEwan one of the "Dulwich boys", 30 sixth-formers who commenced study of Japanese at SOAS in May 1942.^[2][3]

After the war P. G. O'Neill became the first professor of Japanese at SOAS.

Works

'Noh

• Collected Writings ISBN 4-931444-37-7
• A Guide to No
• Early No Drama
• Japan on Stage

Japanese language

• A Reader of Handwritten Japanese
• Japanese Kana Handbook
• A programmed course on respect language in modem Japanese. London: English Universities Press, 1966.^[4]
• Essential Kanji. (a sequenced introduction to the Tōyō kanji 1946-1981)
• 日英佛教語辞典 Japanese-English-French Teaching Terms Lexicon.
• 中日英佛教語辞典 Chinese-Japanese-English-French Teaching Terms Lexicon. (enlarged edition of above)
• 日本人名辞典 - dictionary of variant pronunciations of Japanese personal names and surnames.
• 日本人名地名辞典 - personal names, surnames and place names dictionary

References

1. ^ オニール(Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill)： 1924年生まれ。ロンドン大学東洋アフリカ研究部（SOAS）にて日本語を学び、能の研究で博士号取得。同大学教授、日本語学科長等歴任。日本語の敬語、書記法や能の研究とともに、数多くの外国人向け日本語教科書の著者として著名。著書に日英佛教語辞典、中日英佛教語辞典、日本人名辞典、A Guide to No, A Reader of Handwritten Japanese, Early No Drama, Japanese Kana Handbook, Essential Kanji, Japan on Stage (河竹登志夫著英訳)等。収録論文分野：日本語、能、日本の祭りなど。
2. ^ Sadao Ōba The 'Japanese' war: London University's WWII secret teaching 1995 p11 "There were five war-time courses in Japanese at SOAS. ...who to this day are known affectionately as 'the Dulwich boys'."
3. ^ Christopher Alan Bayly, Timothy Norman Harper Forgotten armies: the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 2005 Page 259 "They were known as the 'Dulwich Boys', lodged as they were at Tin Tut's alma mater, Dulwich College."
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